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NICE and The BNMS

The National Institution for Clinical Excellence (NICE) produces clinical guidelines and also technical appraisals, many of which have reference to the practice of Nuclear Medicine. To visit the NICE website click here.

Dr Arum Parthipun, Royal Free is the BNMS lead on NICE consultations.  If you have any questions relevant to BNMS engagement with NICE consultations please contact Dr Parthipun here NICE@bnms.org.uk

The BNMS are stakeholders in NICE guidelines which contain nuclear medicine recommendations. Below are the consultations that the BNMS have been and currently involved in:

Acute Coronary Syndromes

Acute Kidney injury: prevention, detection and management

Acute kidney injury update quality standard

Acute respiratory infection in over 16s: initial assessment and management, including using virtual wards (QS210)

Advanced breast cancer:diagnosis and treatment

Atrial fibrillation: management

Babies, children and young people's experience of healthcare

Barrett's oesophagus and stage 1 oesophageal adenocarcinoma: monitoring and management

Barrett's Oesophagus - ablative therapy

Brain Tumours

Breast Cancer (Advanced)

Breast Cancer (Early) Trastuzumab

Caesarean section

Cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract

Cardiovascular disease: risk assessment and reduction, including lipid modification

Cardiovascular disease prevention: cholesterol treatment target (secondary prevention)

Chest pain of recent onset: assessment and diagnosis 

Chronic kidney disease: assessment and management (update)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in over 16s: diagnosis and management

Cirrhosis in over 16s: assessment and management

Crohn's Disease

Colorectal cancer

Colorectal Cancer Quality Standard

Colorectal Cancer Guideline

Cancer services for children and young people

Chronic heart failure in adults

Chronic heart failure in adults - diagnosis and management

Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management - Pharmacological treatment of chronic heart failure

Chronic fatigue syndrome / Myalgic encephalomyelitis

Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease: assessment and management

Coeliac disease in adults

Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers

Dementia (update 2019)

Diabetes type II update

Diabetic Foot Problems: inpatient management

Diagnostic Services

Disabled children and young people up to 25 with severe complex needs: integrated service delivery and organisation across health, social care and education

Dyspepsia

Early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and management

Early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment

Emergency and acute medical care in over 16s

Epilepsy the diagnosis and management of epilepsy in children and adults

Epilepsies in children, young people and adults

Epilepsies in children, young people and adults (update)

Epilepsy Update

Everolimus and sunitinib for treating unresectable or metastatic neuroendocrine tumours in people with progressive disease

Gastro-oesophageal reflux in children

Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (unresectable, somatostatin receptor-positive) - lutetium-177 dotatate

Haematological cancers

Head and Neck Cancer

Heart valve disease presenting in adults: investigation and management

Hip Fracture

Hip Fracture: Management

Hip Fracture Quality Standard

Hypertension

Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management (update)

Hyperparathyroidism (primary): diagnosis, assessment and initial management

Improving outcomes for people with sarcoma

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Joint replacement (primary): hip, knee and shoulder

Learning disabilities

Liver Disease

Low back pain

Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management

Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men

Lung Cancer: diagnosis and management

Lung Cancer in adults

Melanoma: assessment and management

Metastatic spinal cord compression

Metastatic malignant disease of unknown primary origin

MI:Secondary prevention

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome

Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Neutropenic Sepsis

Oesophago-gastric cancer: assessment and management in adults

Osteoarthritis: care and management

Osteoarthritis in Adults

Osteoarthritis in over 16s: diagnosis and management

Osteoporosis fragility fracture

Parkinson's disease in adults

Patient experience in adult NHS services (QS15)

Prostate Cancer

Psychosis and Schizophrenia in adults 

Renal and ureteric stones: assessment and management

Renal and ureteric stones (QS 2020) (QS195)

Renal replacement therapy and conservative management

Rheumatoid arthritis in adults

Rheumatoid arthritis in over 16s

Rheumatoid Arthritis Quality Standard

Sarcoma

Schizophrenia

Sedation in infants, Children and Young People

SeHCAT (tauroselcholic [75 selenium] acid) for diagnosing bile acid diarrhoea

Selective internal radiation therapies for treating hepatocellular carcinoma - March 2021

Selective Internal Radiation Therapy for Colorectal Metastases in the Liver

Selective Internal Radiation Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Selective internal radiation therapy for neuroendocrine tumours that have metastasised to the liver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service user experience in adult mental health services (QS14)

Skin Cancer

Skin cancer (QS130)

Skin tumours including melanoma

Spinal metastases and metastatic spinal cord compression

Stable Angina

Stable Angina Quality Standard

Stroke

Surgical site infection

Suspected Cancer

Suspected acute respiratory infection in over 16s: assessment at first presentation and initial management

Thyroid cancer: assessment and management

Thyroid disease

Transition from children’s to adults’ services 

Type 2 diabetes in adults: management

Ulcerative Colitis

Unstable angina and NSTEMI

Urinary tract infections in adults update quality standard

Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men

Urinary tract infection in under 16s: diagnosis and management

Urinary tract infection (recurrent): antimicrobial prescribing

Upper GI Bleeding

Venous thromboembolism in adults

Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing (2019)

Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing (2023)

When to suspect child maltreatment

Ovarian Cancer

Oesophago-gastric cancer

Parkinson's Disease

Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis

Prostate Cancer

Referral for suspected Cancer

Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing

 

 

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